GJisho

GJisho is a Japanese-English dictionary for GNOME.

Building and installing

GJisho is written in Go, so Go must be installed to build it. It also requires the GTK3 development libraries, which will vary based on distribution.

To fetch the resource files needed for the dictionary, run make fetch or download them manually (see below). Then, run make to build the application and the database, followed by make install to install them (make install may need to be run as sudo make install or similar).

Prerequisite resources

These resources can be downloaded manually and placed into the correct locations (see the makefile) as an alternative to running make fetch.

• JMDict: https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/JMdict-EDICT_Dictionary_Project
  • Download: http://ftp.monash.edu/pub/nihongo/JMdict.gz
• KANJIDIC: https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project
  • Download: http://www.edrdg.org/kanjidic/kanjidic2.xml.gz
• KRADFILE: https://www.edrdg.org/krad/kradinf.html
  • Download: ftp://ftp.monash.edu/pub/nihongo/kradfile.gz
  • Note: this file is encoded in EUC-JP and must be converted to UTF-8 before building the database
• Tatoeba/Tanaka Corpus: https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/Tanaka_Corpus
  • Download: ftp://ftp.monash.edu/pub/nihongo/examples.utf.gz
• KanjiVG: https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg
  • Download: https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg/releases/download/r20160426/kanjivg-20160426.xml.gz

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